Missing models.

I opened up my SDK this afternoon to get to work on my cp_axle in the hopes of finishing a release worthy version before my uni workload hits me like.. something that hits really really hard.

But i can't progress because certain models have just vanished from the directory.

Models that include: models/props_forest/cliff_wall_09a.mdl
and all subsequent versions that end with a letter, and additionally models/props_forest/cliff_wall_10.mdl.
As well as the waterfall rock: models/props_forest/rock_waterfall.mdl
small rocks: models/props_forest/rock006.mdl
and several versions of the wooden bridges: models/props_forest/sawmill_bridge.mdl

I've refreshed my SDK content to no avail and these models merely show as the error model.

A couple people in steam chat have admitted to no problems on their end. Any one have any idea's or the same problem? Cause this is so frustrating, i'm so close to finishing the next alpha.

Maybe they put them under another directory? Have you used the model viewer search already?

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I'm not sure why they would seperate the 'rockwaterfall' from the waterfall itself, between two different directories. Nor why they would split half the alpine rocks to another directory, when they were all produced for the same original map.

All search results fail, and the stand alone model viewer shows no existing models with these names in said directory.

You could use GCFScape to check the caches to see if they really are missing or not.

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I guess i could, just to double check; although that's pretty much what the stand alone model viewer did for me. The files were simply not there (if it was a corruption issue, surely the viewer would still see the format of the file and recognise it as a legitimit file type in the explorer window, but just be unable to show me the contents when loading it up).

Mmmm I'm not sure about that.
The error is in the GCF file which resides in the "steamapps" folder. This file is not in the tf folder at all, so deleting the tf folder, or any tf2 folder will have no effect.

Grazr, can you post the exact byte size of the "team fortress 2 content.gcf" file?
If it is missing files, it might show up here as a smaller filesize.
Mine is 2 970 758 416 byte. (2.76 GB) (actual size, not disk usage size thingy)

This is a very odd error. I have never come across it before, and I have seen my fair share of oddities regarding Steam and the Source SDK.

Haha that's awesome.
You simply have to delete the GCF and download the game again.
(Just starting TF2 after deleting the GCF might work, I have never tried)
Hopefully you can keep the materials GCF so you don't have to download that one again too.